Yes, I was* a user of /gʌt/. I had /ʌ/ in "gotta", "gotten", "forgot" and "forgotten", but I think I had /ɒː/ in "begot" and "begotten". *I've since switched to the "short-o" version, though. My accent was an ENE-GA hybrid from th...

That reminds me of a lot of the traditional English legal doublets, like "breaking and entering", "assault and battery", "cease and desist". (The last one is all Latin, but hey, there are no brakes on the doublet train.) Unrelated LFT: I'm kinda down with the wacky/unba...

/ˈgɛt/ is what I use and what I generally hear around here. But yeah, I agree that while pen-pin mergers usually seem to have /ˈgɪt/, not all /ˈgɪt/ users have the merger. If I remember correctly, Ben Franklin used "git" when he wrote letters in his phonetic alphabet.

So… I've gone back and forth on whether to add Arabic to the list of languages I'm seriously trying to learn. I really like the language esthetically and I've gotten a pretty good grasp of the standard phonology, but one of the things that's been deterring me is the diglossia question: most learning...

It's also a gross oversimplification to think that there have only been two consistent sides. Each "side" is a shifting coalition with a variety of regional cultures and subcultures within it. For one concrete example, the ancestors of Trump's much-mooted white, working-class Rust Belt vot...

Also, it's been a hell of a long time since "America First" was an uncontroversial expression of patriotism. John McCain, who's likely more historically aware, kept himself to the awkward "Country First" in order to avoid the phrase's bad old connotations, but Trump paid it no mi...

I say "absent" with [b̥], a voiceless lenis stop. "Apsent" would sound slightly different. In this song , John Linnell is intentionally singing in some kind of New England accent. How would you describe the way he pronounces "organ", phonetically? It almost sounds like ...